What would you risk for a complete stranger? Travel through history along with millions of readers during Big Library Read, the world’s largest digital book club. From 17 June to 1 July, booklovers can borrow LP Fergusson’s harrowing wartime love story A Dangerous Act of Kindness from the library as an eBook, with no waitlists…

WORD Christchurch is back for its Autumn Season! You can treat yourself with some of the amazing author talks lined up for this mini-festival which runs from 8 to 25 May 2019. You can buy tickets to individual events, if there's a particular author or talk you're interested in, or you can splurge on an Autumn…

A whole clutch of novels have been turned into movies and TV series, or are due for release soon. Here's what to read, either in advance of watching on screen, or as a tasty, more fleshed-out mains to the movie or TV appetiser. Comedy Catch-22 - Joseph Heller's classic WWII satire is now a 6…

"We’ve been called witches since the beginning of time. Word-cunning, they used to call it—of a piece with invoking demons…We were burned for it too. The Crusade wasn’t new, we’ve always been scapegoats. Well, knowledge is always a kind of magic, I suppose." - Seredith I'm not gonna lie, The Binding by Bridget Collins had…

Summer holidays is about having some me time, wherever you spend them. Sitting back and relaxing with a book, a bit of escapism - and what better than some easy reading novels, like a trashy romance, or a mystery or thriller you can't put down. Here's an interesting fact: Romance is our most popular genre…

It's not really a festival until you have your mettle tested by an event that you chose to blog on only to find that it ticks only some of your boxes, scrapes its nails down the walls of your brain in other ways, and it all happens after a ferocious argument with a car guard…

We are asking quick questions of writers and thinkers coming to the WORD Christchurch Festival 2018 (Wednesday 29 August to Sunday 2 September). Nicky Pellegrino is the author of 10 best-selling novels. She juggles writing fiction with a career as a journalist, regularly contributing to magazines including the Listener and the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly. What…

Just in case you wondered, How to Fall in Love With A Man Who Lives in A Bush is not set in the wilds of Africa and the protagonist is certainly no Jane Goodall. An engaging and entertaining journey of self realization across the turbulent oceans of the earth, How to fall in Love is a…